Plaintiffs counsel in Philadelphia’s first pelvic-mesh trial focused his opening statement on the product’s design and injuries it allegedly caused.
Shanin Specter, who represents plaintiff Patricia Louise Hammons in her suit against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon, told the jury Wednesday the device that was implanted in Hammons to support her prolapsed bladder contained too much mesh. According to Specter, if unspooled, the mesh in the Gynecare Prolift device that Ethicon designed could stretch across two-and-a-half football fields.
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